AUSTRALIA - Missions, Auntie Corrie, Hawk's Nest, and a Meat Pie - July 7.

Video of Gymea Baptist Church and the new addition

Began the day at Gymea Baptist talking with Karl Faarse (Sr pastor) and Paul Summers (head of missions) about Albania and short term missions.

Left to grab some coffee, pack the car and leave Julies for West Ryde (North west Sydney) to visit my Auntie Corrie (89)



She always makes a big spread for morning tea and she still does...

The same stuff is in the cupboards as when we were little and the same little wonky loo is out back....Absolutely love it!
Mum and Joy would have loved it. Great feeling of being at "home" at the Wheats.




Me outside Auntie Corries

We hit the road after our visit and headed north to Hawk's Nest to a holiday house of a freind of Julies. About 3.5 hours dirve thru big mountains (too rainy to get pictures) and flat farmland...
The National Park was on our left for most of the way. It is huge. We used to live backed right up to it. The birds (Cockatoos, Galahs, Kookaburra's and other parrot, budgie, song birds used to hang around the yard. Beautiful!

We passed thru West Ryde, Epping Road, North Ryde, Pymble, Karingai Shire (Grandma and Granddad Wheat lived there), Hornsby, Gosford, Woy Woy Grandma and Grandad Wheat had a house there), Ettalong, Terrigal (where Narelle and Gwenda live),Toukley (vacations with the Kings), Maitland (we lived there before me), Wallsend (before me), Newcastle, Raymond Terrace, Tea Gardens, then Hawks Nest. 

We stopped for a meat pie (for Matt Wright!!!!) YUM in Raymond Terrace, near Kurri Kurri and Newcastle. At the Heatherbreae's Pie Shop.

I put all those names of places in for Mum and Joy, but other readers may enjoy the odd names (most Aboriginal).

We arrived and I caught up on blogging and Julie did some scrapbooking...here are somn OLD photos of our

 family.

1962 Chicago -1963 Atlanta